Systems of law: Islamic law

This book seeks to open new lines of discussion about how Islamic law is viewed as a potential tool for programs of social transformation in contemporary Muslim society.

Passed into law over a decade before the Revolution, the Family Protection Law quickly drew the ire of the conservative clergy and the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979.

In Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: A Fresh Interpretation, Mohammad Kamali considers problems associated with and proposals for reform of the hudud punishments prescribed by Islamic criminal law, and other topics related to crime and punishment in Shariah.

Introduces an Islamic theory of social justice to inform the theories and design of global intellectual property regimes.

Offers a new way of understanding classical Islamic theories holding that divine revelation is necessary for the knowledge of norms.

There is a long and rich history of opinion centred on female prayer leadership in Islam that has occupied the minds of theologians and jurists alike.

Introducing undergraduate students to Islamic law, this accessible textbook does not presume legal or technical knowledge.

In this book, originally published in 1929, Lammens is primarily concerned with the problem of Mohammad's personality and prophetic career - one of the central issues of Islamic history.

This book explores the ways in which Muslim communities across the Indian Ocean world produced and shaped Islamic law and its texts, ideas and practices in their local, regional, imperial, national and transregional contexts.

This book explores how Islam can impact the structures and performance of firms, financial institutions and capital markets across a range of countries and industries.

Transformations of Tradition probes how the encounter with colonial modernity conditioned Islamic jurists' conceptualizations of the shari'a.

This book is the first ethnographic study of Muslim minorities'' practice of Islamic law in contemporary China.

The idea of maslaha has a rich history in classical legal thought and literature.

This pioneering research brings into focus the Islamic contribution and influence in the development of the modern law of the sea.

Can there be God-conscious organizational behaviour in the real world of today's capitalist corporations and the alternatives?

This book examines the legal conundrum of reconciling international human rights law in a Muslim majority country and identifies a trajectory for negotiating the protection of religious minorities within Islam.

Taking the Arab Spring as its case study, this book explores the role of law and constitutions during societal upheavals, and critically evaluates the different trajectories they could follow in a revolutionary setting.

As a result of the uprisings that spread across the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and 2011, the issue of state public violence against both men and women dominated the headlines.

Words in both law and religion can shape power relationships and are often highly disputed.

A concise study of the practices in Islamic commercial law Filling a gap in the current literature, Islamic Commercial Law is the only book available that combines the theory and practice of Islamic commercial law in an English-language text.

The relationship between Islamic law and society is an important issue in Iran under the Islamic Republic.

How can Muslims be both good citizens of liberal democracies and good Muslims?

A world expert's introduction to the controversial subject of Islamic lawProviding a comprehensive and accessible examination of Shariah Law, this well considered introduction examines the sources, characteristic features, and schools of thought of a system often stereotyped for its severity in the West.

In 1910, al-Mahdi al-Wazzani, a prominent Moroccan Islamic scholar completed his massive compilation of Maliki fatwas.

This book examines the intersection between contemporary International Commercial Arbitration and Shari?

This book places context at the core of the Islamic mechanism of ifta' to better understand the process of issuing fatwas in Muslim and non-Muslim countries, thus highlighting the connection between context and contemporaneity, on one hand, and the adaptable perception of Islamic law, on the other.

The importance of the rule of law is universally recognised and of fundamental value for most societies.

Original Islam investigates the primacy of Madinan Islam and the madhhab (school of law) of its main exponent, Malik ibn Anas.

In this book Kerry O'Halloran analyses a subject of international interest - religion - and examines related contemporary issues from a human rights perspective.

Dupret explores how the concept of positive law operated in the Muslim world.

This book seeks to interrogate the classical fiqh formulation on gender and homicide with a view to exploring further the debate on whether the so-called gender injustice in Islamic law is a human creation or attributable to the divine sources of the Qur'an and Sunnah.

This book provides an introduction to the laws of the Middle East, defining the contours of a field of study that deserves to be called 'Middle Eastern law'.

This book analyses the general interaction between international law and Islamic law in the Muslim world today.

This book takes a hermeneutic approach toward reading the writings of Jamal al-Banna and Tariq al-Bishri across several decades in order to explore contemporary Islamic political thought under authoritarianism.

The relationship between Islamic law and international human rights law has been the subject of considerable, and heated, debate in recent years.

This book draws on the work of Rawls to explore the interaction between faith, law and the right to religious freedom in post-Soeharto Indonesia, the world's largest democracy after India and the United States.

Today Islam is often associated with violence, more so than other world religions.

Should an employee be allowed to wear a religious symbol at work?

Written from an ethnographic perspective, this book investigates the socio-legal aspects of Islamic jurisprudence in Gaza-Palestine.

This volume identifies and elaborates on the significance and functions of the various actors involved in the development of family law in the Middle East.

This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the contemporary study of Islamic law and a critical analysis of its deficiencies.

The idea of maslaha has a rich history in classical legal thought and literature.

This book provides an introduction to the laws of the Middle East, defining the contours of a field of study that deserves to be called 'Middle Eastern law'.

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Much has been written on specific religious legal systems, yet substantial comparative studies that strive to compare systems, identifying their analogies and differences, have been relatively few.

In this book Kerry O'Halloran analyses a subject of international interest - religion - and examines related contemporary issues from a human rights perspective.

This collection investigates the conflictual relationship between the Islamic world and Western civilization, looking at its history as key to understanding its present.